Ring in the new but don’t wring out the old years just yet. Indeed, studying our history is a superb juncture that teaches us to look to the future walking backward, which is an excellent way of not losing sight of our past. It trains our eyes on the years that just passed and recount and reflect on the manifold ways with which our history has led and blessed our country today. Definitely, we must have enlivened by the vigor of our bygone history. Enthralled in the magic of its significance in to present. Reminiscing Philippines history is like a carousel of fun-filled adventure, wherein days are shimmering with yield and delights of cultivating and tilling the principal substance of our own history. A 18th– century poet name Alexander Pope once wrote: “We ought to blame the culture not the soil.” Same thing in our history, we have laborious reading of our own that can unveil our patriotic soul but still, we are in vain. Considering this occurrence, we must hang on to the inculcating values of our readings in a manner that is most powerful, most impactful, and most effective, regardless of the imagination it conveyed. Still, it gives us free rein, to our body and spirit, springing from ecstasy to some seemingly endless escapade of wisdom and, as always, encircled by the bygone loving embrace and example of our culture and tradition. Moreover, it enables us to identify, understand and reflect such pleasing and bitter olden times and its connectivity of how our youth today, which is said the hope of our future by our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal.
So now what of the future for this history?
Indeed, we have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way our yesterday, as well as our academe, has led us, and its teaching in our past history.
By: Liza Marie S. Magtanong | Teacher 1 | Bataan National High School – SHS
